Telebriefing
Agenda
February 24, 2010
1:30 p.m. – Welcome and Opening Remarks
James
Gavin III, MD, PhD – Clinical Professor of Medicine at Emory
University and the Indiana University School of Medicine, Chief Executive
Officer and Chief Medical Officer of Healing Our Village, Inc.
1:40 p.m. – Presentation of Low
Consumption and Higher Medicare Cost: Consumption Clusters in a Medicare
Fee-for-Service Population
Gary Puckrein, PhD – President and CEO
of the National Minority Quality Forum, Founding Partner of the Diabetes Care
Project
1:50 p.m. – Barriers to
Diabetes Management
James Pope, MD –
Vice President and Chief Science Officer, Healthways, Inc.
1:55 p.m. – Barriers to
Diabetes Management
Kenyatta Lee, MD – Medicare Director, Community Affairs, &
Assistant Medical Director, Commonwealth
Family Practice Group and Soutel Plaza Family Practice and Pediatrics
2:05 p.m. – Question and Answer
2:20 p.m. – Diabetes Care Project Web site
2:25 p.m. – Closing Remarks
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About 3 to 8 percent of pregnant women in the United States develop gestational diabetes, and have a 30 to 40 percent chance of developing type 2 diabetes within five to 10 years.2